Re: Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

2007-11-11 Thread David Starner
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 05 novembre 2007 à 05:18 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : According to Wikipedia, the translator died in 1921, which means that his translation occurred prior to 1923. In this case, the translation is in the public domain in the United States, so the

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread David Starner
Thaddeus H. Black writes: We are going to support Unicode because we have no practical alternative. However, Unicode is a bad standard. It is highly overwrought. Its philosophy is wrong. Its use complicates many things which do not need complication. Lots of accusations but no backup.

Accepted music123 14 (i386 source)

2004-06-12 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:49:01 -0700 Source: music123 Binary: music123 Architecture: source i386 Version: 14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted bbtime 0.1.5-6 (i386 source)

2004-02-27 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:18:11 -0600 Source: bbtime Binary: bbtime Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.1.5-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted bbtime 0.1.5-4 (i386 source)

2004-02-22 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:01:43 -0600 Source: bbtime Binary: bbtime Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.1.5-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted bbtime 0.1.5-5 (i386 source)

2004-02-22 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 06:43:06 -0600 Source: bbtime Binary: bbtime Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.1.5-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted bbtime 0.1.5-3 (i386 source)

2004-02-18 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:17:05 -0600 Source: bbtime Binary: bbtime Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.1.5-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted music123 13 (i386 source)

2003-12-16 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:47:55 -0800 Source: music123 Binary: music123 Architecture: source i386 Version: 13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-16 Thread David Starner
Alexander Winston wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 23:17, David Starner wrote: If you were a Debian developer, you could fix this by adopting or at least NMUing important programs that were unmaintained. Is it easier to stand on the outside and complain then actually work to making it better

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-16 Thread David Starner
This may be somewhat contraversal, but I wouldn't start with C or C++. If you want to learn to program, start with something with bounds checking and other safety guards. To be a serious programmer, you will have to learn C and C++, but learning a programming language is only a small part of

Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread David Starner
Debian 3.0 contains 7 CDs with binaries and Debian 3.1 might contain 10 or more CDs. How do you explain to a user why there are 10 CDs, but this popular package is not included, and that package he needs is not included? Saying The maintainer didn't care enough about the package you need.

Re: Bug#220358: ITP: mecab-ipadic -- IPA dictionary compiled for Mecab

2003-11-14 Thread David Starner
First, IANAL and not a native speaker nor a regular debian-legal reader, but I can't see what is exactly nonfree in this piece of licence. In my reading it just says, 1) Do what you want with it 2) Keep a NO WARRANTY section in the licence 3) Don't do any illegal stuff The last is the

Accepted music123 12 (i386 source)

2003-10-04 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:45:34 -0700 Source: music123 Binary: music123 Architecture: source i386 Version: 12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted music123 10 (i386 source)

2003-09-12 Thread David Starner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:45:38 -0700 Source: music123 Binary: music123 Architecture: source i386 Version: 10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread David Starner
the system in real life situations. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!

Re: Do we need policy changes?

2003-04-20 Thread David Starner
, then neither is not handling UTF-8, considering that's requirement for India, home of over a sixth of the world's population.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread David Starner
But they clearly do not want you to modify anything, including character name! Character name is a searchable field, which some applications may need. It's an English field, for which there is a canonical translation for French, and there should be translation for other languages. The

Re: kbiff.mo should be removed from kde-i18n-*

2002-04-22 Thread David Starner
. It's an upstream problem, so you might want talk to them (kde-i18n-doc) about it, too. There's nothing that debian-devel can do about it, and it seems likely if you talk to the people responsible for kde-i18n, it'll be fixed without problem. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit

Re: Where to place Ada (Gnat) libraries

2002-04-18 Thread David Starner
or details to add to Debian Policy. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread David Starner
. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-17 Thread David Starner
versions for all those packages? I know that mdate has had substaintially newer versions out for almost two years now. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-15 Thread David Starner
is willing and able to do a job most of the rest of us couldn't or wouldn't. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

2002-04-11 Thread David Starner
for the past six years. I would wager that there's been a major (50+ posts) thread on this subject on this mailing list at worst every 6 months. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-10 Thread David Starner
under copyright in many EU nations (life + 70 years, and Barrie died in 1937.) Also, Peter Pan is under an eternal quasi-copyright in Britain, by a special act of Parliment. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
the license too.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
of the author. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
is the evil twin of censorship, namely forced speech. I can't see why... are you forced to package anything? So I can't package something because there's something I need to change (to make it Debian quality, for example) that I can't. That's very free. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
gcc from main? We just need to pull gcc's documenation from main. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
this would be too much of a distraction from woody. True. Probably better let it all pass for woody, like we did for KDE in the distant past. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
(for example) is all right in documentation and not in a comment in source code. I certainly don't want to see non-modifiable fonts or game data in Debian. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
accepted. What does that have to do with other invariant stuff? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
of the DFSG are in conflict at least. As far as I can see neither the gcc nor the binutils documentation has invariant sections. I don't know about KDE. Take a closer look at the GCC documenation, at funding free software. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
are not quite as clear as they should be for now. How can you claim that the DFSG, in spirit or letter, encourages non-modifiable material of any sort? Even patch clauses are labeled a compromise by the DFSG. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
and it will be 35% faster than your older distribution. More packages than blah blah blah ... then that's a serious annoyance, that I'm going to want to remove or at least move. If the license doesn't let me, then then I don't really have control of how my system works. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread David Starner
it by the end of today I will do that. Why? Considering how close to the release we are, and how easy it is, why not do it now? It certainly won't interfer with the maintainer closing them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread David Starner
, or at least the readings or scope thereof. I'd say the onus is on the people who want to change the status quo. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet

Re: Defoma Problems

2002-04-06 Thread David Starner
be equally simple). -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Defoma Problems

2002-04-05 Thread David Starner
much. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-27 Thread David Starner
and English. ISO 8859-1 has been the traditional charset of English under Unix. (The alternatives have usually been rough permutations of iso8859-1.) UTF-8 is nice, but too much stuff still spits up over it to make the default. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-24 Thread David Starner
complex scripts. It's a system designed for charcell fonts with a one to one character to glyph correspondence. There's only so much that can be hacked onto it, and scripts that require shaping are generally considered outside that. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread David Starner
always going to be LTR, single width, and non-combining. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - Freakin' Friends

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread David Starner
. And this is because the RTL problem is shared among Arabic and Hebrew. But RTL is only a part of the problem. Arabeyes is a much better site for general Arabization, including Arabic font making. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
at arabeyes.org (a site for Arabizing Unix.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - Freakin' Friends

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: This is, IMO a bogus bug. Go and fix a real bug. There are enough already. A package that will do grave damage to your system if installed is not a real bug? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
in 17 monitors uses 75dpi fonts? Come on guys, it's a configuration choice. Change it and go on with your life. It's against Debian's Social Contract to use our proprietary Read Your Mind technology, so we have to pick a default, and 100dpi is it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread David Starner
, and neither was top. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread David Starner
.) It's apparently a malset COLUMNS variable. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-19 Thread David Starner
is English as spoken in the United Kingdom. The ISO country code for the Ukraine is UA. en_UK is not English as spoken in the United Kingdom. The ISO country code for the United Kingdom is GB. UK is not yet assigned, according to /usr/share/misc/countries.gz. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-16 Thread David Starner
as well pick up the README file and other stuff in the /usr/share/doc/foo directory. I don't see the reason to single out the README.Debian file. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
to README.Debian. I rarely read README.Debian after first installation, so IMO, it's a bad place to put things that change after installation. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
problems (like this one), so the changelog is usually more interesting than the README.Debian. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
would catch anything important and new. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
of the first files I read. As I don't run sawfish, I really don't care. In the above text I wrote at installation time, meaning when a package is initially installed, not everytime I upgrade. Which doesn't solve this problem. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post display completely on your screen ?) Here it does. The message I got was properly labeled as ISO-8859-1, too. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
possible, why don't we just have the LaTeX/Texinfo/Tex/Docbook/whatever source, with instructions on how to build ps/pdf in README.Debian? (The instructions are nesseccary, unless you expect everyone to know how to build Docbook and whatever other obscure formats.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David Starner
, and that English is LC_MESSAGES=C, not LC_MESSAGES=en_UK. If we're changing this for GDM, it'd be better for GDM to call English C or en_US, so there's no changes. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David Starner
their language, but i think it was called english even before Colombo, right? It's en_UK, btw. And the locale code for pre-Columbus English is enm_UK (assuming that the locale system uses 3 character codes where a 2 character one is not available), not en_UK. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:01:12AM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 20:32, David Starner wrote: is enm_UK (assuming that the locale system uses 3 character codes where a 2 character one is not available), not en_UK. hey, i'd like to know _why_ enm... :) We use

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like tail -f, but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-07 Thread David Starner
(!) It hardly convinces me. And? If that's what the upstream wants, I hardly see reason enough to change it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:37:02AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: So, lets fix one problem by creating another problem! ECN isn't there anymore! So? Neither is a lot of options. You can recompile a kernel just as well as anyone else. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http

Re: Fonts working out of the box

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
, 0x20AC }, { 0x2122, 0x2122 } }; -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: Fonts working out of the box

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:14:26PM -0500, David Starner wrote: One worry I have, is that we don't really want Debian to have a large number of 'junk' fonts. Which may be a bit panicy on my part. The same thing could happen with themes, yet we don't have a problem with an overwhelming number

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-05 Thread David Starner
than just let bugs set. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-05 Thread David Starner
block for me; it would certainly help to get a translator/editor for the full blown proposals. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-04 Thread David Starner
on the ramifactions. Anyway, grisu is offering working code. There is no working dpkg solution, nor consensus that a dpkg solution would be better. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread David Starner
my locales (mainly UTF-8). How does making it a conffile hurt things again? (locale.gen attached as an extreme example that needs to be supported.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread David Starner
meant to be chains; it's meant to be a way for us to build a consistent well-designed OS. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread David Starner
not well documented (neither gettext (3) or setlocale (n) seems to mention it), but: ~ $ date -h date: invalid option -- h Try `date --help' for more information. ~ $ LANGUAGE=xo:eo_EO:de_DE:en date -h date: Ungültige Option -- »h« Mit `date --help' bekommen Sie mehr Informationen. ~ $ -- David

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-01 Thread David Starner
and that implemenators had plenty of warning that that bit might need to be used. He did not say that ECN should be turned on by default. Your words can be translated (very liberally) as We should never improve anything; even backward compatible extensions will break something, and so should be shunned. -- David

Re: dhelp and kdict: conflicting directories?

2001-05-10 Thread David Starner
sure that we had our directories straight. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
find a few on the web. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
in one.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
, and display an iso8859-15-tagged text with the same byte stream with a Euro, and be able to handle a UTF-8 email with both of them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
/locale/iso8859-15/Compose, which specifices compose+C+=, compose+=+C, compose+e+=, and compose+E+= as the compose keys for the Euro. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:08:42PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: El 09 May 2001 13:51:15 -0500, David Starner escribió: Yep. If you go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/, there's a number of files with locales listed in them. Add [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to them

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
where it would actually matter - then you could just use es_ES.ISO-8859-15 -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread David Starner
for a shell and keeps an alphabetic order people (of that language) would consider reasonable. If sorting the dots in made more people happy than not, it would be good, but most of us seem to not care in most sorting situations, except the shell where it's a pain. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems with atari800

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:40:24PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: Anyone have any idea what the chances are of getting Atari to release some of this stuff into the public domain? It'd be Hasbro now, and from what I've heard, not great. Still might be worth a try. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
to debian-legal, I'm sure we can give advice. If it's just Python, I'd say with the exception that it can be linked with Python. The LGPL is about the same as your current license, but a lot clearer. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server written in python. I am the author, package is already ready and being duploaded

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-29 Thread David Starner
easy to check if you aren't sure. * The essentials list is a little old, and it includes ldso and update, which apparently aren't build-essential anymore. Bug-report time . . . -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
the second. My time is far more important than saving memory - my two-year-old computer has 128 MB - what's an extra 4MB of shared libraries. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me

Re: fortunes-atheist copyright again (would be FW: Re: copyright)

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
that are absurd in these conditions. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

Re: ITP: ghfaxviewer - the GNU HaliFAX Viewer

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
debian-devel. Instead, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] only and put 'X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the headers. Whatever happened to just leaving debian-devel out of it and using debian-wnpp? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Starner
for a speed-up that maybe as big as what the kernel will give you, and I would reckon that most of the other people that had the libc-i[56]86 packages installed haven't either. It's analogous to the kernel problem. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org (K) 3141

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Starner
manually configuring your kernel instead of going apt-get install kernel-2.8.88-i686. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored. - Joseph_Greg

New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the above? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning. -- RHPS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:12:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw BTW, what would it take

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-12 Thread David Starner
small programs to generate a new Wiccan calendar and a new Jewish calendar (and parts of the Christian calendar) each year? Not that I have the knowledge to do so . . . -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human

Re: gettextized console-apt

2000-09-11 Thread David Starner
://bugs.debian.org has complete instructions on how to do that, or you can run bug if it is installed. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning. -- RHPS

Re: ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-09 Thread David Starner
them. (Or both.) If the program needs one to run, then at least one should be packaged. I'd prefer not to see a lot of installers that download free software - the one's that download non-free stuff are annoying and cause enough problems as it is. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
was wondering what happened to it? It didn't appear in the archives, it wasn't moved to REJECT or DONE, it just disappeared. I was wondering if there was some long flame war on debian-private that I was missing. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain

Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable for stable. Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than unstable Gnome. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
incident, as I don't think I can load my .xsession in under 6 seconds. Since *dm requires you get a username and password (bwahaahaa!), use it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
to the GTK plugin, not because it looked better (because it doesn't), but because QT is 5 MB in memory, more than GTK + Glib + Gnome libs. At least we can stop the idelogical arguments. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:21:02AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:05:27PM -0500, David Starner wrote: I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian? He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it was installed. I was wondering what happened

Re: build question

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
or a private machine and tell people how to get them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. - Dio, Rock and Roll Children

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
remember Wichert agreed to this use. What still needs to be done to have a debian section for software covered by software patents? The problem is not patents, it's that this particular patent also applies in Germany, meaning we can't distribute from non-us either. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: ITP enhydra

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
into contrib. It's free, but depends on something outside of Debian to build. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org I knew all of the floors in my high school, and none of the ceilings. - Chris Painter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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